Ron Grimes

God’s Yes Was Louder than My No

“This is a pioneering work. It attends to a central dimension of African American Christianity, the call, a topic largely neglected by theologians and religious studies scholars. Bringing multiple perspectives to bear, Myers argues that the call is not only a kind of religious hermeneutic but also a form of ritual and of narrative. Myers has a finely tuned ear for the nuances and richness of specific African American voices.”

Mighty Stories, Dangerous Rituals

Church Leadership & Ministry

“An extraordinarily compassionate and accessible book that forges practical and conceptual links between storytelling and ritualizing. This is a work that encourages and enables Christians to reflect more profoundly on the big, obvious transitions such as birth, coming of age, marriages, and death, as well as other little-recognized passages such as divorce, adoption, and leaving home.”